On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 10:14:30 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:29:04 on Wed, 11 Jan
2017, d remarked:
nationals, there are a lot of regional variations. To be fair the number
in London is higher than average - but most are in minimum wage jobs.
Just 3.2% in IT or telecoms jobs.
I'd be interested to see their definition of IT because my experience is
vastly different.
As most of the rest are patently minimum wage cleaning (etc) jobs, your
interest is misplaced.
The statement that only 3.2% of workers in IT are foreign nationals is
farcical.
You may of course be confused by the number of second generation
immigrants working in IT - Brits of course. And like I said, the
Don't patronise me. I'm perfectly capable of hearing a british accent on an
asian or black person. I'm talking about foreign nationals.
proportion in London is higher than the rest of the country, so you
can't extrapolate from the place(s) where you happen to work.
Well I guess it depends what IT. If it includes every part time sys admin
who pops up in local firms around the country to fix a borked Windows machine
then probably not, but serious computing infrastructure, activity and workers
are generally confined to large firms who in turn are confined to only a few
areas in the country with London being the main one (followed by the M3/M4
corridors, manchester and glasgow).
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Spud